The McKean Community Based Leprosy Control Project

Thailand

This part of the McKean projects, begun in July 2017, continues to provide healthcare and disability services to marginalised and disadvantaged people in Thailand. In partnership with government health workers, project staff find and treat new cases of leprosy. This strengthens health services in the northern and western border-regions of Thailand.

People affected by leprosy (including non Thai citizens) receive quality, timely treatment and management of leprosy complications in the community.

McKean projects in the last financial year had the following successes:

The Leprosy Mission in Thailand

The Leprosy Mission's involvement in the country goes back to 1911, when it was still called Siam. The Mission helped fund housing for homeless patients on a river island donated by the ruler of Chiang Mai.

It is now the flourishing McKean Rehabilitation Centre. Owned and run by the Thai church. McKean is The Leprosy Mission's partner organisation in Thailand.

McKean cares for and integrates patients with leprosy and disabilities and age-related problems. It is recognised as the centre providing leprosy expertise in north Thailand, and also provides residential treatment and rehabilitation for marginalised or displaced disabled persons, along with training in activities to promote sustainable livelihoods.

McKean has also, in recent years, been pioneering the development of multi-tiered aged care for the broad spectrum of elderly folk in the region.

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